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the number of attacks with blackmail software on computers in Bavaria increases. Currently subject at least 40 ads Stakeholders’ whose computers are infected with crypto Trojans as “Locky,” said a spokesman for the Bavarian Criminal Police Office in Munich. Since January 2015 620 cases were registered. Derlei attacks on computers are not new, but the quality has changed. Earlier malicious software have a system locked, today the data would be encrypted.
The so-called ransomware (ransom software) device usually by clicking on fake e-mail attachments to a computer system. If the Trojan active by opening the attachment, encrypt all files on the affected computer. The blackmailer ransom for decryption. The LKA expert advises, do not respond to the ransom, but to file charges. Recently the Fraunhofer Institute in Bayreuth and the municipality Dettelbach had been victims of a crypto Trojan among others.
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